Michael A. Schoeppner (Farmington University of Maine)

Moral Contagion

Black Atlantic Sailors, Citizenship, and Diplomacy in Antebellum America

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Produktbeschreibung

During the Antebellum era, thousands of free black sailors were arrested for violating the Negro Seamen Acts. In retelling the harrowing experiences of free black sailors, Moral Contagion highlights the central roles that race and international diplomacy played in the development of American citizenship.

Produktdetails

• Studies in Legal History
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 418g
• ISBN-13: 9781108455121
• ISBN-10: 1108455123
• Artikelnr.: 59964524

Autorenporträt

Michael A. Schoeppner is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Maine, Farmington.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. The Atlantic's dangerous undercurrents
2. Containing a moral contagion, 1822-9
3. The contagion spreads, 1829-33
4. Confronting a pandemic, 1834-42
5. 'Foreign' emissaries and rights discourse, 1842-7
6. Sacrificing black citizenship, 1848-59
7. From the decks to the jails to assembly halls: black sailors, their communities, and the fight for black citizenship
Epilogue.